ShareBitDefender today has released an emergency update to shield users against the newly-discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7. Microsoft has detailed the attack scenarios in security advisor #981374, announcing that a patch is being made in order to mitigate the vulnerability.
Users running Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 can get infected by simply visiting a specially crafted web page that uses highly obfuscated JavaScript code to create a use-after-free error, such as a pointer being accessed after the deletion of an object.
Anatomy of the attack
Initially, …

ShareIf you are a Windows XP user and using Internet Explorer 8 than you may not want to press F1 to call for Help while browsing any website. This is not the first IE vulnerability remember our post New IE Flaw – Turn Protected Mode On To Stay Safe
Microsoft told Windows XP users not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE).

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In a security advisory issued late …

ShareLately I have unleashed the power of tweaking Firefox, these days I am just tweaking around Firefox, though I ‘ve just figured out how userChrome.css can be used to tweak/hack firefox, but I am still looking forward on other areas where I can tweak Firefox.
In this tutorial I will show you how you can secure your stored password in firefox, by simply adding 2-3 lines in your userChrome.css file. For those who don’t know how to tweak userChrome.css file please refer to Basic Firefox Tweaking Tutorial and Advanced Tweaking Tutorial.
Before …

ShareWe know how to grant roles to different user, but most often we provide only 2 roles which are either Standard User or an Administrator. But there are more roles that we can assign to our users. In this tutorial I will shoe you how you can assign different roles to your users.
To start with let say there are 3 Users on your Windows 7 Computer – Administrator, YourName and Guest. And you want to assign different role to User YourName.
For assigning role you must first login in your Administrator …

ShareIf you want to confirm that your site is free from malware than Google Safe Browsing tool may help you. To use this tool, just append a URL to the end of  the following code and put it in address bar and hit enter
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=
For example, to test my site (beingpc), you would enter
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://beingpc.com/
Google will then return four sets of security information about that page.

What is the current listing status for beingpc.com?
What happened when Google visited this site?
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Has this …

ShareAfter the new Windows7 Update may be you will not be able to run your Windows 7 anymore if you have activated by OTHER means. Joe Williams writes in his post states that -
We’ll be deploying a new update for Windows Activation Technologies, the set of built-in activation and validation components built into Windows 7. Called Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7, this update will detect more than 70 known and potentially dangerous activation exploits.
Activation exploits are sometimes called “hacks”, and attempt to bypass or compromise Windows’ activation technologies. …